Background
Shaily Lipa was born in Tel Aviv and raised there and in Ra"anana, the daughter of Tel Aviv natives whose origins are in Greece and Turkey.
Shaily Lipa was born in Tel Aviv and raised there and in Ra"anana, the daughter of Tel Aviv natives whose origins are in Greece and Turkey.
She never studied formally in any cookery school, but she attended several cooking courses.
Her Greek grandparent is a Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz. She was raised in a family that dines well, entertains and talks about food. Her academic studies include a bachelor"s degree in biology from the agriculture faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She worked as a veterinarian assistant for five years.
Following that she worked as an account executive in a large advertising agency, where she told the agency art director, Roni Bar, about her dream to write her own cookbook. Bar introduced Lipa to her mother, Elinoar Rabin, a well-known food author
Her prizes were a trip to Paris and her own food column. In summer 2005 she published an article about healthy food in the magazine First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hashulchan (Hebrew: On the Table).
In the years 2009 – 2011 she authored a food column in the Israeli mainstream daily Maariv.
Since November 2011 she has hosted, along with other chefs, a food section on the lifestyle television show hosted by Odetta Schwartz. She participated in the third season of the Matkon Batuach (Hebrew: Safe Recipe) show on Israel television"s Channel 2, together with other prominent Israeli chefs. In May 2012 she started hosting her own television cookery show, Habait shel Shaily (Hebrew: Shaily"s Home) on television Channel 2"s Reshet division.
In each installment she prepares five easy-to-make dishes.
In September 2015 she started hosting her new television cookery show "Super Shaily" on television channel 10. In each installment she cooks 4–5 courses meal and hosts a DIY (Do lieutenant Yourself) expert.
Lipa has developed recipes for food industry companies including Tnuva, Shimrit, Sunfrost, Maadanot, Hardoof, Gad Milk, and Quaker Oats.
